But “the thing that actually triggered it was the court decision,” Thompson said. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago, paving the way for states to usher in new restrictions on abortion, doctors started seeing more young adults seeking vasectomies or getting their tubes tied, emerging research has found. That percentage went from 6.2% to 9.8% after the Supreme Court decision, based on their analysis of a national database that includes hundreds of millions of patients. Schardein said the Supreme Court ruling and increased marketing for vasectomies may have gotten more people thinking about the procedure. Another analysis in the Journal of Urology that included multiple medical centers around the country — including UCLA — found that after the Dobbs decision, the typical patient seeking a vasectomy was younger than before.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 18, 2024 10:02 UTC